Posts Tagged Rant

September and Aion

So, after getting a new position at work I have not really had much time to update the blog. It is September which means Collette is about to turn 2 and there is about 1 month left until we enter freeze at work. I was going to post about the Aion Closed Beta a month or so back but I never really got around to it. I do have a Legion that is a merger of my Guildwars play group and my co-worker’s Lineage 2 buddies. After much deliberation we cam upon the Legion name of Aeterna Lux which means eternal light in Latin. Long story short between setting up servers at work, playing the beta, and helping set up a new legion website, the chamber has fallen by the wayside.

What is coming up you ask. On the 13th Collette will be 2 and she wants a baby doll over all other things. This Sunday is the start of the week long open beta for Aion (we get to play with our legion buddies this time) and Aion releases on the 22nd. It is going to be a fun month all around and a fast moving one at that.

So, in the next several days while I am on vacation I am going to work on adding a more definitive Aion section to the site and I will be adding links to the legion. Other than updating the website I am just going to relax and be glad that after two months of crazy effort things are getting back to a more manageable flow with work and everything else. 

I can’t really think of much else to say right now that would be exciting to anyone but me so I think I will work on the other parts of the site and get some more posts on the forum. Ok, the exciting thing only I really care about are I found out how to make my hosting service use PHP5 which let the auto update of wordpress run when it just broke and hung with PHP4 and they just removed the traffic quota on my hosting service so never will I risk having mass charges if more than the normal 6 people come to my site. I told you only I would care about that stuff.

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Like Bashing Your Head on the Wall

So, I am working on getting our HP-UX server talking nice with active directory. I have been digging all week and finally find what looks like a solution and I am getting ready to implement and Boom! The one feature I need is not on the HP-UX version on CIFS. From the digging I have done I see that a fair amount of the time CIFS and winbind are implemented to allow AD permissions in nested groups to resolve on a samba server but nesting is about the only feature HP-UX shut off. Why, I ask, why????

Now, I am looking for ways to get around nested groups and well I ask what is going on with POSIX.  It is like moving back in time for UNIX to windows support. Anyhow, I just needed to get that out so there you go.

Please note I am not speaking on behalf of my employer or HP in this post it is just a frusterated rant of mine that I am sure will subside if you just walk away and avoid eye contact.

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Best Vista Prompt Ever

So, my mother in-law’s computer died and I am tasked with recovering the data so I load the HDD into my system and get ready to wipe NTFS permissions so I can back it up to disk and I get this prompt when I click on a user folder. How does this even work???? it does work BTW but really what is with that?

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Aion Obsession

So I have been tracking the news on Aion and discovered that they not only released information on the collectors edition but they announced that preorder packs with beta access are going to be available starting the 9th of this month (that’s next Tuesday). In digging further I found that they are already at some stores and after failing to find any in Minnesota we helped a friend track one down in Texas. We are awaiting the arrival of the key s locally so we can enjoy the beta goodness this weekend so I am excited.

I will admit I am getting ready to retire Guild Wars and move on but there are no MMO’s that have really looked that appealing. I am hoping Aion is as good as it sounds. I already started the client download. I guess only time will tell.

For those of you not in the know Aion is the new MMO from Ncsoft and has been in development since the second expansion of Guild Wars released. I am glad to see that it is finally coming.

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Sticky Keys Epidemic

Here is a short rant, I remember having to fix computers at St. Cloud State that had they shift key stick AKA sticky keys and well I have not thought about it until last week. over the course of a week I had 4 different cases where either myself or someone I was talking to needed to check that sticky keys was on. I just thought it was odd that I went about 4 years never even hearing about sticky keys and in one week I had to deal with it 4 times. remember it’s shift 5 times to toggle it on and off now everyone try it!

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